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Consumer confidence is slipping, retail sales are weakening, and both new and existing home sales are stagnating.—Garth Friesen, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 Friday’s jobs report is expected to show growth continues to stagnate.—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025 Its sales have also stagnated as investors await new products.—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025 Both Russia and Ukraine turned to strategic warfare as the frontlines in the ground war stagnated.—Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stagnate
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Etymology
Latin stagnatus, past participle of stagnare, from stagnum body of standing water
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